The second
reason is constant reboots. And I’m particularly aiming my gun at Marvel here,
if you’re gonna keep rebooting your titles every year, what’s the point in me
even reading them. I’ve basically dropped my Marvel titles to Ms Marvel and
Star Wars related stuff. Although a lot of that is down to titles I was
enjoying coming to an end, with no other writer taking over for some reason.
Speaking of
writer’s taking over, word to DC and Marvel. A new creative team is not enough
to justify relaunching the entire title. We don’t need a Superman #1 just
because Bendis is involved, especially if essentially it’s just continuing
where it was left off. At least when Darth Vader relaunched, it decided to take
place in an entirely different period of his history. But rant over, how are we
gonna end this, on a brand-new DC Character: Sideways
The event
Dark Knights: Metal is a decent one, it brought Martian Manhunter back into the
fray after a long absence, delved into the Hawkman/Hawkgirl mystery and more
importantly was a decent story in its own right, although it had far too many
one-shots and tie-ins. No Justice #1, which followed immediately after was also
a good read. But before we got that, we got ‘The New Age of Heroes’ a line of
new characters who had origins linking to the event, there were about 8 titles,
and I’ve heard good things about some of them, but the one that intrigued me
was Sideways.
As plotters
we have Kenneth Rocafort and Dan Didio. I’ll leave off criticising Didio, but
he was involved in a lot of poor creative decisions during the New52 and even
before then. You might remember Kenneth Rocafort, he was an artist during the
second Teen Titans run in the New 52, at least the issues I reviewed. That
wasn’t well written, but I was OK with the art. Helping Didio out with Dialogue
is Justin Jordan, I have next to nothing I can say about him since I haven’t
read any of his work.
Rocafort
also handles the artwork, with colouring by Daniel Brown. Don’t have much to
say about him either, since I haven’t read his work, but he was also on later
issue of that Teen Titans volume I reviewed. So, let’s just take a look
